Finished Playing Easy to Get, an anthology featuring novellas by Sherrilyn Kenyon, Jaid Black, and Kresley Cole. I won this one a few weeks ago during a contest over at The Good, the Bad, and the Unread. Kenyon’s story is about Allison, who wins a book contest and gets whisked away to an island where she gets to pretend to →

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Finished Halfway to the Grave by Jeaniene Frost. Someone (I believe Chasity) recommended this book in another post. So I snatched it up when I saw it at RT in the goodie room. Warning: there be spoilers ahead. This is the first book in Frost’s Night Huntress series, which stars Catherine Crawfield. Cat’s mom was date-raped by a vampire, which means Cat herself is →

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Finished Wild Thing, a paranormal anthology featuring four authors. I picked this one up at the Berkley author signing at RWA last year, and Marjorie M. Liu was gracious enough to autograph it for me before the signing started. If you’ve ever met Marjorie, you know she’s as nice as she is talenter. Here’s a brief recap of the stories: Maggie Shayne pens →

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Finished Night Life by Caitlin Kittredge. I heard Caitlin speak on an urban fantasy panel at RT this year and picked up her book from the freebie room. This urban fantasy focuses on Luna Wilder, a detective in Nocturne City who’s on the trail of a vicious serial killer. Complicating matters is the fact Luna is a lone werewolf without a →

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Finished The 47th Samurai by Stephen Hunter. This book is part of Hunter’s saga about the Swagger family from Arkansas, including Earl (the World War II hero dad) and Bob Lee (his son and a Vietnam-era sniper). This book focuses on Bob Lee, who’s now in his sixties and has retired to Idaho where he’s building a house for his wife. One day, →

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